As you all know, I'm somewhat an anime enthusiast, luckily not an otaku, cos i prefer watching animes than reading manga. Well, I stumbled upon a new current airing anime titled "Jigoku Shoujo Fukatomori" It practically means Hell Girl-2 Prisoners, which means it is the 2nd season of Jigoku Shoujo. To sum it all, Jigoku Shoujo is a collection of different stories as to why people look for hell girl to get their revenge.


Enma Ai. The childlike protagonist who carries out the torture and vengeance of her client's antagonizer. She has a past, which I'm unsure of bcos I didn't watch Season 1 and i'm freaking intrigued by it. Pls tell me if you know where to get Jigoku Shoujo Season 1. Apparently, she has some special powers and bcos of her power, the pple in village are afraid and probably wanted to sacrifice her to the god of the village. Many things happened after that and probably resulted in the death of her family, village and herself. As a punishment from the village god, she cannot go to hell or heaven, and is bound to this earth for this revenge business. But the strange thing is, her life in the middle place between earth and hell is pretty comfortable. She is always surrounded by beautiful red lilies and the sky is always sunset red and her obachan seems to be such a nice person. She is always seen wearing sch girl's uniform or a very colourful black based kimono when she is on her mission to take away human souls. Her 3 assistants are hone onna, ichimoku ren and wanyudo, who assist her in the pre-death torture of the antagonists and the investigation of the clients' dire situation as to why they wld use jigoku tsushin.

She has a personalised website whereby potential clients have to type in the name of the person they hate. Clients must have enough hatred and willpower to want their antagonizer to die, in order for them to access the website. Enma Ai will show up in front of the client afterwards and give them a straw doll with a red string. If they untie the red string, their enemies will be taken to hell immediately. But it also means that the clients themselves are bound by a contract that is they themselves will have to go to hell after their life is over on earth. This is the restitution that is to be made for pple who seek revenge using the jigoku tsushin (hell hotline).


The anime has a repetitive theme so it may bore pple who are looking for exciting juicy action. But i enjoy it thoroughly although the theme is always about seeking revenge, I get to see how warped the japanese society or humanity really is. Sometimes I dun understand why pple use jigoku tsushin on the people they love and yet hate, esp when they are family members. Beloved yet hated. Could it be that love and hatred originates from the same place (ie human heart) that it is makes it so hard for me to understand why you can love and hate the same person at the same time? Some of the characters really deserve to die, while there are others whereby i think their sins are too mild for them to deserve this kind of instant death.

But i guess this is what interests me. Well, if jigoku tsushin really exists, i wouldn't use it, even if i hate somebody so much that i want him/her to die. I dun wanna have a confirmative chop that says i'm going to hell when i die. Nah, pple who make you hate them so much, seriously dun deserve your attention and i dun wanna suffer in hell with the person i hate. So duh, i rather spend my afterlife with pple whom i like, if i have my choice lah!

If you feel like watching Jigoku Shoujou: 2 Futakomori, log onto www.fansub.tv for bittorrent downloads, their direct downloads are kinda slow, but unless you're in NTU, and using cable with speed as fast as the speed of light, i'm sure you wldn't mind. hurr hurr...